WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The imperial examination (Chinese: ; pinyin: kējǔ; lit. “subject recommendation") was a civil-service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The civil service was an effort to establish a meritocracy. This means that people were promoted due to their “merit” or how well they scored on the exams and not based on their family or wealth. However, most of the officials came from wealthy and powerful families.

Detailed explanation-3: -The civil service examination system was an important vehicle of social mobility in imperial China. Even a youth from the poorest family could theoretically join the ranks of the educated elite by succeeding in the examination system.

Detailed explanation-4: -During Han dynasty, the first civil service exam was set up. Confucianism, with no surprise, was one of the key subjects to study for the civil service exam. Provincial schools were established countrywide and the Confucianism tradition of education was spread all over China.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Han established a large government bureaucracy operated by Confucian scholars. They gained their positions by taking difficult civil service examinations based on the Five Classics, the Analects, the Book of Mencius, and other works.